Krasimir Davkov, LPP, JINR, Dubna, Russia Development an research of granular coordinate detectors based on straws PhD Thesis at Laboratory of Particle Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research defended 8 December 2011; in Russian (Abstract in English) Thesis and Abstract

Christoph Schrader, Frankfurt University, Germany A Readout System for the Micro-Vertex-Detector Demonstrator for the CBM experiment at FAIR PhD Thesis at 'Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main' defended 9 June 2011; Thesis

Norbert Abel, Heidelberg University Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Framework for Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration PhD Thesis at 'Naturwissenschaftlich-Mathematischen Gesamtfakultät der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg' defended 22 February 2011; Rated 'summa cum laude'; in English with German Abstract Thesis -- also available as book

Andrey Lebedev, LIT, JINR, Dubna, Russia Algorithms and software for track reconstruction in the transition radiation detector and muon system of the CBM experiment PhD Thesis at Laboratory of Information Technologies, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research defended 21 January 2011; in Russian Abstract and Thesis